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American beauty pageant contestant
Lynda Lee Shea (née Mead; born April 17, 1939) is an American businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder who was
Miss Mississippi 1959 and
Miss America 1960 . Shea attended
Natchez High School and the
University of Mississippi , where she was a member of
Chi Omega sorority.
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[2] Her immediate predecessor as Miss America,
Mary Ann Mobley (the first Miss America from Mississippi), was Mead's sorority sister at Chi Omega.
[3]
[4]
Family
Mead married Dr. John J. Shea Jr. in 1964; they have three adult children.
[5] Dr. Shea died in 2015.
Business life
Shea is president of Shea Design & French Country Imports in
Memphis, Tennessee .
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References
^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
^
"1960" . Time. September 21, 1959. Archived from
the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-31 .
^ Morris, David Rae (2000).
My Mississippi . University Press of Mississippi. p. 49.
ISBN
9781617034398 .
^ Eagles, Charles W. (2009).
The Price of Defiance . University of North Carolina Press, 2009. pp.
8 -9.
ISBN
9780807832738 . , Mary Ann Mobley lynda lee mead sorority.
^ Tauber, Michelle; Neill, Mike; Russell, Lisa; Fowler, Joanne; Dam, Julie; Tresniowski, Alex; Miller, Samantha; Dougherty, Steve; Yu, Ting (October 16, 2000).
"American Beauties: 80 Years" . People .
^ Mitchell, Lena (April 30, 1998).
"HED:French Country plays dominant role in Interior Design" .
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal . Retrieved May 30, 2014 .
"Magnolia Hill: a dream realized atop a hill, crowning twenty beautiful rolling acres, the home of Mary and Sam Haskell pays homage to faith, family, and friends" . Mississippi Magazine . The Free Library. September 1, 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2014 .
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